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Wouldn't most Uber trips be on roads with lower speed limits since they're almost entirely intra-urban? In that case it'd make sense that they're safer than national average.
Re:Google Kills Cloud Print on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:35AM (#21606469)
I thought that service was part of the Google Enterprise suite (i.e. a paid service)
Re:Tesla Cybertruck on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:10AM (#21606193)
What about quick release wheels? You can easily fit a bike in a compact car or two if it's something like a Mazda 3 / Prius
Re:Bar Chart Race, Explained on Thursday November 14, 2019 @09:49AM (#21535754)
What's the advantage of an animated bar chart compared to an area chart? I personally think they're incredibly painful to look at but since I keep seeing them pop up on reddit I'm sure there must be advantages I haven't thought of, right?
Re:Perl Master Plan on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:25AM (#21525138)
The OP is about Perl 5 not Raku (formerly known as perl 6)
Does Toyota even import cars (to North America, at least)? I was under the impression that most of their models were built locally.
Re:Barcelona’s Line 9 – Inspiring Montreal’s Pink Line on Friday November 08, 2019 @02:12PM (#21485653)
The sad story is people like you perpetuating 30 year old stereotypes about Quebec and sticking to them even after being proven wrong multiple times. Maybe you should practice what you preach and visit the province once in a while.
Re:Barcelona’s Line 9 – Inspiring Montreal’s Pink Line on Friday November 08, 2019 @12:00PM (#21484152)
>resulting in Quebec being one of the poorest provinces in Canada with a lot of unemployment

Quebec has the 2nd lowest unemployment rate (5.0%) in the country. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141002...

Re:Barcelona’s Line 9 – Inspiring Montreal’s Pink Line on Friday November 08, 2019 @11:36AM (#21483848)
>You might as well say that quebecoi [sic] don't want to learn the language of the rest of the country.

"Between 2006 and 2011, the number of persons who reported that they were able to conduct a conversation in both of Canada's official languages increased by 350,000 to 5.8 million. The English‑French bilingualism rate within the overall population went from 17.4% to 17.5%."

"The growth of English-French bilingualism in Canada was mainly due to the increased number of Quebecers reporting that they were able to conduct a conversation in French and English. Quebec accounted for 90% of the net increase in the number of bilingual persons between 2006 and 2011. In fact, 71% of the net increase in English-French bilingualism in Canada is attributable to the population with French as a mother tongue in Quebec, in particular to the population aged 15 to 49."

"In Quebec, the English-French bilingualism rate increased from 40.6% in 2006 to 42.6% in 2011. In the other provinces, bilingualism declined slightly. The largest decreases were recorded in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia, where in each case, the bilingualism rate decreased by half a percentage point."

- https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98...

Better GPUs is what enabled modern ML, it wasn't a CS breakthrough.
Re:Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:16AM (#21215450)
>Undoing this damage, while also managing to feed the nearly 10 billion people expected to populate the earth by 2050, is going to require lots of ideas integrated together.

Back of the envelope calculation: The global cattle population is around 1.5 billion. A cow eats between 8 and 16 Mcals per day, which is roughly 4-8 times what is recommended for an average adult (2 Mcals). If we diverted all those calories to humans we could feed 6-12 billion of them (neglecting protein, vitamin and mineral content).